happy mutants Charles Babbage wrote a "cardboard vaporware" app in 1840 and left it in Turin Cory Doctorow

crime Mafia used the text-message ticker at the bottom of a sports broadcast to get messages to mob bosses Cory Doctorow

Business Cyber-arms dealers offer to sell surveillance weapons to undercover Al Jazeera reporters posing as reps of South Sudan and Iran Cory Doctorow

gender On "Eastern European Women" Jasmina Tesanovic

italy Video: Mount Etna erupts as BBC journalists run for their lives Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Makers: enter the Share Festival's ARTMAKER Prize competition for sincere electronic art Cory Doctorow

politics Milosevic, Berlusconi, Trump Jasmina Tesanovic

law Italy unveils a legal proposal to regulate government hacking Fabio Pietrosanti and Stefano Aterno

happy mutants "Cruelty free" Italian snail-farming booms thanks to caviar and slime-cosmetics Cory Doctorow

uk Accounting fraud admission wipes £5.5b off BT's valuation Cory Doctorow

class war Italy's referendum: a vote against neoliberalism and authoritarianism Cory Doctorow

law Italy on the verge of the stupidest censorship law in European history Cory Doctorow

art Artist installs rooms beneath Milan's sewer entrances Cory Doctorow

corruption Saudi embassy hired mafiosi to smuggle Turkish PM Erdoğan's son out of Italy ahead of money laundering charges Cory Doctorow

art Call for submissions: SHARE electronic art festival, curated by Bruce Sterling Cory Doctorow

politics Nude statues at Rome museum covered to not embarrass Iranian president David Pescovitz

art Replica weapons made from thousands of cut and stacked post-its Cory Doctorow

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